It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
AL PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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